Ballpark Comic Con appeals to Patriots

11:46 PM,
May 17, 2013

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There was nothing secretive about the devastating slider Sparky Lyle threw pitch after pitch during his Cy Young Award-winning major-league career. The real secret Lyle carried to the mound with him was the Captain America T-shirt he wore underneath his jersey in notching the final 169 of his 238 career saves.

"It became a part of me," said Lyle, who purchased the white T-shirt with a small, centered image of the red, white and blue character running after being traded to the Yankees in 1972 and wore it to threads by the time he retired in 1982. "If I had ever forgotten to put it on, I know I would've ...